Tweed – I like him so much, I bronzed him!

It’s a shitty photo, but my flash is still broken and I was in a hurry to get something I could post for you :)

I’m very proud of my boy – he went 2 for 3 in his Masters Standards, and the one he dropped a bar in was because he wrapped the jump so tightly he bumped the wing with his shoulder. He hit ALL his contacts. He’s such a marvelous doggy!

Here’s his Bronze run video … shaky and kind of out of focus, but hell, at least it’s recorded for posterity!

And Dexter “Long Stride” Morgan did me proud this weekend too. He went 3 for 5 runs; Q’d with a first in Steeplechase. Q’d with a first in Advanced Gamblers, and got himself out of Starters Jumpers with a 1st place and a Q …. 15 obstacles in 15 seconds. How can any dog be that fast?

He had a little meltdown in Starters Standard – the first two obstacles were a chute on the start line, and then a sharp left turn to the left over a jump. Dex comes off the start line like a pinball, and he was halfway across the ring and taking an off course jump before I could get his name out of my mouth. And then he decided that the A-Frame contact was superfluous, so we had to redo it no fewer than 5 times to get him to stick it ;-)

In the Steeplechase we didn’t Q in, I over rotated on a front, got momentarily lost, and by the time I righted myself (took about one second) he was already over an off course jump. No room for error with a dog this speedy! Even with the massive time faults for an off course, he was still just one second away from qualifying. And his Advanced Gamblers Q racked up something ridiculous like 94 points.

Congratulations all around – Tweed, Dexter, and Food Lady. Tweed looks so pleased with his “bronzed” self. Dexter is amazing and obviously loves flying around an agility course. Pray he doesn’t get any faster!

Now Dexter…. HOLY CRAP. He flies effortlessly through the course. He is amazing to watch, a revelation. It is so exciting to be tuned in to this amazing athlete this early in his career. He has barely had a rookie season, and his potential already looks off the chart.

I can’t imagine how excited you must be to run him and to see what he is going to develop into. HOLY CRAP.